Quotes About Individuality

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!

Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development

I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Whatever question there may be of his [Thoreau's] talent, there can be none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one, but it was eminently personal. He was unperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse than provincial—he was parochial.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.